that's just on the israel-iran. if you look -- broaden out a little bit, then you have syria, which is in state collapse, and is probably going to be in some sort of state of anarchy over the next few months. that will likely spread to conflict in neighboring lebanon. also spread to conflict in iraq. we could have a potential band of conflict from lebanon, through syria, into iraq. this is not a time where you're -- it is going to be easy to shift to asia, even though that's where -- even though that's where all the new billion airs are going to be. >> there's the added element of -- go ahead, doris. >> i was going to say that what that shows is when you think about lbj's inaugural. in 1965 hardly mentioning vietnam, roosevelt's second, world war ii happened in his term. world war ii breaks out and that is the most important thing that happens to fdr, and vietnam to lbj. >> they are very concerned about the general state of play and that the united states is not engaged. >> look at george w. bush. in 2000 he said he